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The "superiority illusion" may depend on how connected certain parts of your brain are and how many dopamine receptors you have
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Though Darwin coined the term 'living fossil,' if he were around today he'd probably agree that it's time to retire it
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That is assuming, of course, that humans manage to stick around in time for the big unveiling event
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The United States may be the world's largest exporter of sperm
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Around 50 percent of people who recently meditated gave up their seat for a person in crutches compared to just 15 percent of people who had not meditated
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To many, the star nosed mole is alternatively horrifying and fascinating, but have you ever seen the little rodent's face in action?
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A Georgia town may have just mandated gun ownership, but early Americans had the same idea back in 1792
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The Obama administration hopes to do for brains what the Human Genome Project did for genetics
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Ronan the sea lion can keep a beat, something sea lions weren't supposed to be able to do
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Discovery TV crashed a Boeing 727 in the Sonoran desert to answer the question: where's the safest place in the plane?
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A plague of rhino horn and elephant tusk thefts to feed the wildlife black market continues in museums across Europe
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The Shroud of Turin? There's an app for that
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More than 12,000 barrels of oil spilled on Mayflower, Ark.
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There's this weird, droney sound that nearly every action movie seems to employ. But where did it come from?
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Modern humans are doing it all wrong - they eat wrong, they run wrong, they work wrong, they get married wrong. But is the life of cave people really what we should be striving for?
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That childhood distaste for saying you're sorry hasn't gone away as an adult - not apologizing still makes us feel much better than apologizing does
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This little protozoa has seven different "mating types"
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Her murder, one author thinks, was covered up behind a veil of propaganda and lies put forth by the Roman Empire
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In private hands for the past hundred years, Captain Scott's final letter is revealed
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T. Rex may be ridiculed for her puny chicken-leg arms, but don't be deceived: this dinosaur was ripped from head to claw
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